Mercedes doet kunstzinnig…

During Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin, Mercedes-Benz and Antwerp’s MoMu Fashion Museum will be running an extraordinary exhibition called ‘RECOLLECTION QUARTETT’, which opens on 19 January 2011. Together with the Belgian artist and photographer Frederik Heyman, fashion designers Mikio Sakabe, Bernhard Willhelm, Henrik Vibskov and Peter Pilotto will be mounting an exhibition featuring four iconic Mercedes-Benz models from the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s in the paint studio of the Deutsche Oper opera house’s former stage services company in Berlin-Mitte. The installations are remarkable in the way that they evoke collective memories of the era and link them with the fashions and design of today.